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Calling All Artists! Share Your Work In Our Upcoming Online Art Show.
This May, The Icarus Project will be launching a new digital gallery on our website showcasing visual art that explores the themes of "Madness and Oppression: Resistance and Resilience." If you'd like your artwork to be included, please get in touch and share a link to your work using the contact form below. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - February 21, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Community Source Type: blogs

Film Review: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Set in the time of mass de-institutionalization of psychiatric patients, the Mental Patients Association (MPA) emerged in Vancouver at the start of the 1970s. This 36-minute documentary film, produced in 2013 by History of Madness Productions, captures the MPA experience and its impact through interviews with former members, supplemented with animated illustration and archival footage read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - February 14, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: jacks_ashley Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Making Sense of Being Crazy in a Crazy World: A Community Poll
The intersection between madness and oppression is explored here in our latest poll gathering feedback and ideas for the creation of our upcoming Mad Mapping guide. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts and experiences -- the more diverse responses we get, the more useful the guide will be! For more information about this crowd-sourced project, see http://www.theicarusproject.net/article/mad-maps-building-trails-to-where-we-want-to-be-input-needed read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - December 24, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

On Being a Rad, Mad, Queer Mama, by Nina Packebush
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Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - December 20, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Icarus Project Source Type: blogs

On Being a Rad, Mad, Queer Mama, by Nina Packebush
Being “crazy” makes parenthood a uniquely dangerous thing, add on being queer, or a person of color, or poor, or too young, or in any way marginalized and being a “crazy” parent ups the danger significantly. This pressure, judgment, and extreme scrutiny only piles on more stress which in turn creates greater emotional trauma, which in turn affects our ability to not only function in this world and parent effectively, but it also makes it difficult to safely seek help when we need it. And sometimes we really need it. read more (Source: The Ica...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - December 20, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Video Interview w/Mia Mingus on Disability Justice
This interview with Mia Mingus, one of the leading articulators of what Disability Justice is about, was done recently in Ottawa, where she gave two talks on 'Beyond Access: An Introduction to Disability Justice.' The outline of the talk consisted of: a moment for grounding; the framework of disability justice; definitions of disability and ableism; medical and social models of disability; different approaches: services-, rights- or justice-based; the centering of disability in various systems of oppression; how justice goes beyond simply access; the anchors of disability justice; the Medical Industrial Complex; q...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - December 11, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Video Interview w/Mia Mingus on Disability Justice
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Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - December 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Icarus Project Source Type: blogs

A Garden with Forking Paths: pushing back against a new fundamentalism in recovery and radical mental health, by Tim Kelly
We’ve made a lot of progress over the last decade in the coalition of recovery and radical mental health movements. Now it’s time to work harder to embrace a diversity of experiences and perspectives within our movements. We need to think hard about why certain stories are privileged, and whom we may not be hearing from at all. Those most marginalized at the intersections of extreme distress and disadvantage are the least likely to be heard. When we’re not careful, those of us with more privilege—including by virtue of experiencing less debilitating forms of distress— wind up speaking for folk...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - November 21, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Mad Maps: Building Trails to Where We Want to Be, Input Needed
For many years, members of The Icarus project have been imagining maps and roads and labyrinths that would lead us in our journey and ground us in the moment. These have been called “wellness maps” or “mad maps” – reminder documents we create for ourselves and the people around us about our wellness goals, warning signs, strategies for health and who we trust to look out for our best interests when we’re not at our best. Originally inspired by the idea of Advanced Directives (legal documents to share with doctors and friends in the event of being hospitalized), mad maps evolved to work as more informal, persona...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - November 5, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Living In Between: Interview with Icarus Co-Founder Jacks
I recently had the great pleasure of speaking with Jacks Ashley McNamara about writing and creativity, madness and identity, activism and survival. Jacks is a genderqueer writer, artist, activist, and Somatic healer... The Icarus Project recently celebrated its tenth anniversary which happened to coincide with the release of Jacks’ new book of poetry, Inbetweenland, published by Deviant Type Press. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - October 23, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

Coming Off Medications Guide - In Japanese!
The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs was recently translated in Japanese! Thanks to the amazing translation team of Madness Radio listeners Dr. Tsuyoshi Matsuo, Makoto and Yuko Matsuo, Richard Sadowsky, Kyoko Hamashima, Mari Yamamoto, and Mika Jarmusz, with layout support by Seth Kadish You can download the new guide here. Download the scrambled pages printer version here. (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - October 5, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: alternative treatments books coming off meds/withdrawal community icarus downloads icarus organizational icarus press news popular education materials Source Type: blogs

Endless New Beginnings: Madness and Motherhood, Stories and Social Justice
There are not many people talking about what it means to be a mad parent, what those defining identities mean for them or how those roles play out in their lives. Struggling with staying well and a life wrought with experiences that can sometimes, for example, make it difficult to leave the house have the capacity to make modern parenting a huge challenge. For people who are sensitive to the amount of sleep they get or who have a hard time with loud noises and shifts in body chemistry, mad motherhood in particular can be a massive undertaking, requiring unprecedented strength and determination. read more (Source: The Icaru...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - October 1, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs

So Many Wings: Re-imagining the Icarus Project’s Blog
The Icarus Project is in the process of redeveloping our front-page blog as a space for powerful, transgressive stories, articles, interviews, and resources that aren’t being widely published in other alternative mental health media outlets. We want to center the voices and badass organizing of people of color, queers, working-class folks, people with disabilities, and other marginalized voices, offering space not only for counter narratives to the biomedical model of psychiatry, but also for a lot more beauty and brilliance in who gets to speak. We want to expand the dialogue regarding mental health, human rights, liber...
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 30, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Journal Source Type: blogs

Interview w/Sins Invalid on Disability Justice Theory & Praxis
Sins Invalid is a performance project on disability and sexuality that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized from social discourse. Jacks McNamara interviewed Patty Berne, Leroy Moore, Lateef McLeod, and Kiyaan Maghazei from the Sins Invalid crew at Patti’s home in Berkeley on June 26, 2013. read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 23, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: Articles Source Type: blogs